Episode:Our Local System of Inhabited Worlds—Headquarters (Part 1)
Jerusem, the headquarters of Satania, is an average capital of a local system. Two hundred thousand years after the rebellion, Satania is being administered most efficiently; and as the ages pass, the results of disharmony are being slowly but surely eradicated. Order and good will are being restored, and the conditions on Jerusem are more and more approaching the heavenly status of our traditions.
Keywords: Urantia, Jerusem, Physical Features, Lighting and Heating, Transportation
Opening thought: I saw the Holy City, [Jerusem, and]... He who was seated on the throne said,... “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children." Revelation 21:2-7
Summary by Andrea
Commentary after the review
Cherubim take precise data from their wards for the reconstruction on the probationary nursery. They want to create that body exactly the way it was so that when the personality that is destined to identify with it can seat properly. The fact that these children are not sex differentiated is not a problem for the Personality as Personality is transcendent of all reality. It is even one of the most rarified types of Deity. We marvel that a personality can identify with something so lowly as a human.
These children in the probationary nursery are not able to experience what it means to be a sex differentiated creature because they are born without that. And it is this crucial element that keeps them from becoming a finaliter. That aspect of our nature is part of what we need to get us that far. That biologically embedded place-direction differential is somehow imperative to our future.
We further conjectured about the reason for this sex differentiation when it comes to the finaliters. Since they are such an integral part of the entire ascension scheme, we wondered what makes finaliters so exceptional? Well, the fact that they start out so lowly, just as we do, allows for those differentials to be fully realized in time. Additionally, it allows for the potential to understand something from the bottom of the living ladder all the way to the top and have it still be relevant at that very transcendent place. As the vastness of the cosmic extremes play out between Creator and creature, a beautiful drama is in play.
We talked about the children of Adam and Eve who left this world upon the default. They are currently stationed on Edentia and could return to serve in an advisory or leadership role here at some point. However, they would not become biologic uplifters to our races here. That is the mission of Adam and Eve and since their mission defaulted, we must rely on genetic management now.
Procreation and sex differentiation are two amazing gifts. They are so important and so profound. Most people take these for granted. But all of this has infinite purpose embedded in it. We were reminded about how the revelation allows us to understand that everything about reality is profound, every detail of every thing. And it is the maximation of ugliness to think otherwise. A true religionist understands this and bases their life on reality, not appearances. A secularist is turned 180 degrees, focusing only on self-satisfaction. The path of least resistance may be the way that "looks right to a man" as the Bible refers to it, but that leads to falseness and eventually to becoming unreal.
Again, to take things that have infinite purpose for granted is the maximation of ugliness.
To look further into how the revelators define “the maximation of ugliness” go to [56:10]. In that section they go on to say “Every impulse of every electron, thought, or spirit is an acting unit in the whole universe. Only sin is isolated and evil gravity resisting on the mental and spiritual levels.”
Paper 46. The Local System Headquarters
This infinite purposing comes up again as we read the first paragraph and reflect on how the idea of something happening “slowly and surely” takes on a whole new dimension when we read that it has taken 200,000 years for order and goodwill to be restored to the point of where we would recognize it as the heaven of our traditional ideas. The grand scope of it all is impossible to perceive by appearance despite its infinity. It is only via insight that we can perceive this infinite purposing.
The Lucifer rebellion, the bestowal of Michael on Urantia, and even the 5th epochal revelation to our world have created irregularities on our system capital. All of these things create a scheme change that must be adjusted to.
46:1 Physical Aspects of Jerusem
We discussed how each one of Jerusem’s ten thousand longitudinal zones has the same surface area as we have on our planet. This discussion took us into angular sizes and arc minutes. Check the archive at one hour and 9 minutes in for fuller details on these fascinating numbers.
The revelators give us the equivalent of miles, weights, days, and years on Jerusem compared to what we have here. One of their days is equal to three of ours whereas their year is 100 of their days long. They measure things much the same way we do. Their standard weight is called a grandant. The “ant” suffix means “a thing that” and the “gra” prefix means step. It is built up or stepped up from the smallest unit of motion, the ultimaton. Why did they refer to weight when describing it and not mass? Because gravity is a motion, as is everything in the universe.
We found it fascinating how similar the environment is there, including the weather, water, and lighting. It was fascinating to learn this sphere would not be visible to us even if it were very near our world. And we are reminded that the life we live here is a downstepped expression from above. These new worlds will all be relatable to us.
46:2 Physical Features of Jerusem
We learned about the incredible beauty that we will encounter on Jerusem and how every ultimaton is micromanaged. While we will miss many of the rugged and unpredictable features of our earth home's nature, we will be astounded at the unique and delightful topography that we will gaze upon.
Discussion was made around the oxygen that we will breathe and discussed this 3rd gas being morontia oxygen. It is not a separate element but a modified version of the same oxygen molecule we now breathe. We will still drink water and need to travel using the circulatory streams of energy movement. We will be able to travel from 200-500 miles per hour and even a transport bird can get us around at 100 miles per hour Jerusem time which we deduced would be about 240 mph our speed.
This student wonders about how she will keep her hairdo straightened away while riding one of these birds and whether there will be fishing there since there are thousands of sparkling lakes. And, of course, she hopes there will be golf courses where she will play golf with her son again.
